My friend and frequent collaborator Nate Dappen has started his own blog here on daysedgeproductions.com. Nate’s interests and mine are pretty similar, both artistically and scientifically. He’ll be using his blog to post regular updates from the field (he’s currently studying some really interesting lizards in Spain’s Pityuses archipelago) and other items of interest. Be [...]
My friend and colleague Geoff Hill (Auburn University) has just published a new book, Bird Coloration, through National Geographic Press. In 2006, Geoff and his collaborator Kevin McGraw published a two-volume edited set by the same name, which has become a standard reference for biologists studying color in birds and other organisms. This new Nat [...]
Wow, I haven’t contributed anything here for a while. My field season is coming up fast; later this week I’ll be on my way to Florida, where I’ll be spending the better part of three months in South Miami doing fieldwork and captive behavioral experiments with Anolis lizards. I study interspecific territoriality between two invasive [...]
While exploring a series of rocky pools, we spotted a huge cricket walking toward the water. To our astonishment, the cricket didn’t even slow down as it entered the water, continuing about a meter down to the bottom of the frigid, crystal-clear pool. An aquatic cricket? Later, when the insect emerged from the pool, I [...]
Five years ago today, I was literally in “the lost world.” In March 2005, Liz visited me in Venezuela (where I had a job as a field technician on a stream ecology project). We met in Caracas and headed southeast toward Venezuela’s border with Brazil and Guyana. In the town of Santa Elena de Uairen, [...]
One of the highlights of the 2010 NANPA Summit was a keynote address given by Swedish photographer Staffan Widstrand. Staffan’s work is first-rate, but he came to NANPA to talk about Wild Wonders of Europe, a project he started with fellow nature photographers Peter Cairns and Florian Mollers. The scope of the project is enormous: [...]
A friend of mine (thanks, Jess!) posted a link to this video last week, and it’s just too cool not to share. It’s a short excerpt from the BBC series Life, written and narrated by the great David Attenborough. The series is produced by the same folks who created the amazing Planet Earth series in [...]
There are some terrific young nature photographers out there. In my opinion, one of the best is my friend Kari Post. Kari is based in New Jersey and has a great collection of bird, wildlife, and nature images from the mid-Atlantic region. To learn more about Kari’s work, you can visit her website. You can [...]
I’d like to devote one more post to my fellows in the NANPA College Scholarship Program, because it wasn’t just the other grad students that made the program special. The undergraduates in the NANPA College Scholarship group were already very accomplished photographers, and a fun bunch to boot. They were: Stephen Crimarco (University of Central [...]